A photo of Jason Clarke from the waist up, smiling at the camera wearing a brown corduroy sport coat and blue sweater

Hi, I’m Jason Clarke. I’m a family guy, writer, and digital strategist based in Orono, Maine. More about me →

General updates

  • Scoble leaving Microsoft

    Good luck to one of my favorite bloggers, Robert Scoble, who is leaving Microsoft for PodTech.net (whatever that is).

  • Your mission, should you choose to accept it

    Make. very. important. moments.

  • Happy Birthday, Mr. Arthur C. Doyle

    If you visited Google today, you may have noticed the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle logo. Doyle is a personal hero of mine. He would have been 147 today. Besides the obvious- he’s the greatest mystery writer to ever live, and the inventor of the true modern mystery novel (forget Poe)- Doyle also led an amazing…

  • Greatest Lyrics series: ‘The Boxer’

    It’s time for another recurring series here (see also: beta testing, idea factory, best of). This series is Greatest Lyrics, and it’s pretty straightforward. I’m going to be posting some song lyrics that I think are some of the greatest ever written. I’m not talking overall song quality here- though in most cases, they correlate-…

  • Yahoo! Mail’s CAPTCHA: Helpful or annoying?

    I recently switched over to Yahoo! Mail. I’m enjoying the service, but since Sunday, I’ve noticed they’ve implemented an occasional feature I’m not too happy about so far. About half the time, after I’ve clicked the Send button on an email message, I’m taken to a CAPTCHA page that I have to pass before Yahoo!…

  • Rabbit

    Rabbit, originally uploaded by jgclarke. I came home today and found this little friend hanging out in my basement. He came to stay overnight but he has to go home again tomorrow.

  • Lame observation

    It’s amazing how much people will pay for such an abstract thing as a logo.

  • Domain names for sale

    I am offering the following domain names for sale, with a brief suggestion for what to do with each name: activetopic.net I believe this is the strongest name with the most potential. This name will work great for a business (publishing, content, search) or application (tracking, rss, aggregation, etc.). I originally intended to build a…

  • 37Signals’ ‘Getting Real’ sets a bad precedent for self-publishing

    Wildly popular software firm 37Signals is earning much press– predictably, some of the nicest is their own ;)- for the success of their latest book, Getting Real. If you haven’t heard, Real is a book on project management, software development, and business tips for the Web 2.0 era. To their credit, the self-publishing model has…

  • Self-examination for Rails

    Back in November of 2005, in a comment on his blog, I challenged Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson to write up a post on the “10 Flaws, Problems, or Issues with Ruby on Rails.” Hansson replied to my comment, stating “That’s a good idea. When 1.0 is out I’ll assemble a list of…